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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
$23,900
Avg Net Price*
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value IT Schools in South Carolina” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
Information Technology is the 42nd most popular major in the country with 40,555 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, information technology graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $46,525 and had an average of $26,794 in loans still to pay off.
Across South Carolina, there were 145 information technology graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,530 and $23,492 respectively.
For this year’s “Best Value IT Schools in South Carolina” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in information technology. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great information technology programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the information technology program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value IT Schools in South Carolina” list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Value IT Schools in South Carolina
The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value IT Schools in South Carolina.
Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value IT Schools in South Carolina that were part of this year’s ranking, Strayer University - South Carolina landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Greenville, South Carolina, this small private for-profit school awarded 13 degrees to qualified ’s it students in 2020-2021.
Strayer University - South Carolina also made our “Best Information Technology Schools in South Carolina” list, coming in at #2. The yearly cost to attend Strayer University - South Carolina is $22,605 for South Carolina IT students.
Read full report on Information Technology at Strayer University - South Carolina
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Limestone College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value IT Schools in South Carolina. Gaffney, South Carolina is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out ’s it degrees to 30 students in 2020-2021.
Limestone College not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Information Technology Schools in South Carolina” list. It costs about $25,160 for South Carolina IT students per year to attend Limestone College.
Read more about Information Technology at Limestone College
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Notes and References
References
- The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
- Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
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